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jeudi 17 avril 2025, 18:40
In a fun read, VelvetShark attempts to decipher why most AI companies have opted for a logo reminiscent of the human sphincter. I would guess that humans like to anthropomorphize everything, and an AI that pumps put crap needs to look like something that pumps out crap. —...
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Media often has problems stating the obvious, but CNN has no difficulty placing blame for spiking mortgage rates: 'President Donald Trump's scattered approach to tariffs and an escalating trade war with China.' The average rate on a standard, 30-year fixed mortgage was...
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Version 25.04 ('Plucky Puffin') of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been released. This release includes Linux 6.14, GNOME 48, APT 3.0, and introduces a Arm64 desktop ISO to install Ubuntu Desktop on Arm64 systems. This is an interim release, with support through...
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A 500-year-old oak tree that survived the Spanish Armada, two World Wars, and centuries of British weather just met its match: a panicked middle manager at a mediocre roast dinner chain. As the BBC reports, the head honchos at Mitchells & Butlers — proud owners of Toby Carv...
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A financial analyst notes that DOGE has created significant disruption, but very little actual government savings have been realized. Noting the 'promises vs. the realities' of DOGE, MSN analyst Steve Rattner points out that while there has been a lot of noise, a lot of...
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Atari's 1200XL should have been a success of the 8-bit home computing era: modern, compact, designed to compete with the breakout Commodore 64, and good-looking to boot. But it was a fiasco, writes Paul Lefebvre, due to poor compatibility with Atari 400/800 software and a...
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Republican state legislators in Idaho find the Pride flag flying over nearby Boise City Hall offensive, so they passed an unenforceable law that the Mayor is ignoring. Idaho's Attorney General has demanded that Boise's Mayor remove two flags from City Hall under the rule of ...
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Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said the quiet part out loud, admitting that she and her GOP colleagues 'are all afraid.' 'We are all afraid,' she said on stage at The Foraker Group's annual leadership summit in Anchorage, after someone in the audience had asked...
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Those 'quick weight loss' solutions? They might be setting you up for an even faster rebound. A new study in Nature reveals that even after significant weight loss, your fat cells retain an 'epigenetic memory' of being fat. Think of it like cellular PTSD, except instead of...
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Version 14.5 of the Tor Browser has been released. Notable features in this release include the addition of Connection Assist for the Android version of the Tor Browser, and language support for Belarusian, Bulgarian, and Portuguese for all versions of the browser. Should...
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Christian podcaster and pastor Andrew Isker doesn't want to be scanned at the airport because he believes the technology might turn him gay. Instead, be would like to be patted down by male security officers. You know, the ones in the uniforms. — Read the rest The post...
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ActiveX is a powerful technology that enables rich interactions within Microsoft 365 applications, but its deep access to system resources also increases security risks. Starting this month, the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and...
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An American tourist who illegally visited remote North Sentinel Island and left goodies for its famously hostile residents will remain imprisoned in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands for at least two more weeks. The Associated Press reports that Mykhailo Viktorovych...
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The kernel's memory controller works within the control-group mechanism to enforce memory-usage limits on groups of processes. This component has often had performance problems, so there is continual interest in optimizing it. Shakeel Butt led a session during the...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and libapache2-mod-auth-openidc), Oracle (expat, freetype, glibc, grub2, gvisor-tap-vsock, and kernel), Red Hat (grub2 and webkit2gtk3), and SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, cosign, gitoxide, govulncheck-vulndb,...
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AI agents are more than a productivity boost; they’re fundamentally reshaping customer interactions and business operations. And while there’s still work to do on trust and accuracy, the world is beginning a new tech era — one that might finally deliver on the promises ...
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A United Airlines flight caught fire midair thanks to a bird, er, rabbit strike. The plane, carrying 153 passengers, had just taken off from Denver on Sunday, headed to Edmonton in Canada, when passengers heard a bang. Terrifying footage circulating online shows an orange...
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The Lumon computer terminals in Severance are based on the handsome and very real Data General Dasher, but those are museum pieces and far too mysterious and important to hack on now. Apple teased a Lumon Terminal Pro, but the closest fans can buy their way to is Signature...
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EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB. ↫ exwm GitHub page It supports both tiling and stacking windows, dynamic workspaces, RandR, a system tray, and a lot more. XELB stands for X protocol Emacs Lisp...
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A new survey of more than 1,000 IT and security professionals carried out for Cayosoft finds that 88 percent of enterprise hybrid Active Directory environments have critical vulnerabilities. Microsoft Active Directory is a key element of enterprise IT, but the 2025 Active...
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